Exquisitely reproduced in process color and gold ink on heavy stock—including some examples printed as double-gatefold pages that open to more than 54 inches across—this large album presents and describes more than three dozen of the most significant Japanese screens in America. The works here were created during the Muromachi period (1392–1573), when monochromatic ink painting came to be regarded as the only medium worthy of an important artist; the Momoyama period (1573–1615), the "golden age" of screen painting; and the Edo period (1615–1868), one of the most artistically prolific eras in Japanese history.